Percentage of public school 4th-graders eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, by school locale and race/ethnicity: 2009

Race/ethnicity

Total

City

Suburban

Town

Rural

Total1

48

62

39

52

42

White

29

31

21

39

34

Black

74

80

65

83

72

Hispanic

77

82

70

84

72

Asian/Pacific Islander

34

45

25

41

23

American Indian/Alaska Native

68

67

52

70

72

1 Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown.
NOTE: To be eligible for the National School Lunch Program, a student must be from a household with an income at or below 185 percent of the poverty level for reduced-price lunch or at or below 130 percent of the poverty level for free lunch. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. For definitions of locales, see Appendix A: Guide to Sources.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Mathematics Assessment, NAEP Data Explorer.